From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with firmware load on ipw2200
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:08:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2E0EEB.7030605@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277876773.2536.5.camel@ct>
On 06/30/2010 12:46 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
>> stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
>> directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
>> present with the correct permissions.
>>
>> What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
>
> Older versions of compat-wireless had a race condition in the firmware
> code that could cause that. From the log of the compat repository:
Thanks to all that responded. The problem turned out to be a missing
package that contained the compat-wireless scripts. The device is now
running - another satisfied "customer" that just converted his wife from
Windows to Linux. We get em one box at a time.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-02 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-29 13:37 Problem with firmware load on ipw2200 Larry Finger
2010-06-29 13:49 ` John W. Linville
2010-06-30 22:23 ` Dan Williams
2010-06-30 5:46 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-07-02 16:08 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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